2003 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2003?
- January 16, 2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
- January 23, 2003 – Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10.
- January 27, 2003 – The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
- February 1, 2003 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- February 10, 2003 – France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
- March 23, 2003 – In Nasiriyah, Iraq, 11 soldiers of the 507th Maintenance Company as well as 18 U.S. Marines are killed during the first major conflict of Operation Iraqi Freedom. 654 Iraqi combatants are also killed.
- April 25, 2003 – The Human Genome Project comes to an end two and a half years earlier than expected.
- May 12, 2003 – Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers bring the Texas Legislature to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan.
- May 21, 2003 – An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people.
- June 20, 2003 – The WikiMedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
- August 10, 2003 – Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.
- August 14, 2003 – Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
- August 22, 2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
- September 14, 2003 – In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
- October 19, 2003 – Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
- October 24, 2003 – Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
- November 26, 2003 – Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.
- December 17, 2003 – The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend Maxine Carr is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
- December 24, 2003 – The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside Madrid’s busy Chamartín Station.
- December 29, 2003 – The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.
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